PATCHINESS AND CORRELATIONS IN DNA-SEQUENCES

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KARLIN, S
BRENDEL, V
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[1] Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford
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10.1126/science.8430316
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The highly nonrandom character of genomic DNA can confound attempts at modeling DNA sequence variation by standard stochastic processes (including random walk or fractal models). In particular, the mosaic character of DNA consisting of patches of different composition can fully account for apparent long-range correlations in DNA.
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